A stranded Hindu devotee prostrates at the starting point of the pilgrimage to the holy Vaishno Devi Temple in Katra, India, Tuesday, July 21, 2026, as the Mata Vaishno Devi Yatra remains suspended for a third day amid persistent heavy rainfall and adverse weather conditions. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.
Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of members of the al-Amasi family who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, during their funeral in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Belgium’s Princess Delphine during the official military parade, as part of National Day events in Brussels, Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)A man sits beside salvaged belongings following heavy flooding in the eastern province of Nuristan, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Wahidullah Kakar)A tourist uses a hand fan to cool off during a heat wave as people gather on Areopagus Hill, with the Acropolis in the background, in Athens, Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)People are reflected in the window of an icon shop on Red Square near the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Moscow on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, the feast day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. The Kremlin Wall and the Spasskaya Tower are in the background at left. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)People bathe in a water coming from a drilling project which exposed a subterranean hydrothermal spring near Mount Bental in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)Fatima Mokdad stands amid the rubble of her home, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike during the Israel-Hezbollah war, where she and her family continue to live, using the only room that remained intact, in Froun village, southern Lebanon, Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Tuesday, July 21, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Rescue workers try to put out a fire of a residential building burning after a Russian air guided bomb strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)A supporter of the Cockroach Janta Party holds posters of Bhagat Singh, an Indian revolutionary freedom fighter, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Shekhar Yadav)Photographer Enes Khazam works during a photo session on the bank of the Bosphorus Strait, with the Ortakoy mosque and 15th July Martyrs bridge in the background in Istanbul, Turkey, early Friday, June 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)Gold-colored Presidential seals are seen on a fireplace in the Oval Office as President Donald Trump meets with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House, Tuesday, July 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)President Donald Trump meets with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, July 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)The shoes of Angela Rayner, Britain’s Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, right, as she leaves after attending a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street in London, Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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